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Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on May 1, 2014 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
In the 1950s and 1960s, "the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2014
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on June 2, 2014 a TV commercial
Ken "Block supports Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 8, 2014
Clay Pell
Clay Pell
stated on April 30, 2014 a campaign website
"Rhode Island has the highest dropout rate in New England at twenty-three percent."
Half-True
By Karen Lee Ziner • June 1, 2014
Dawson Hodgson
Dawson Hodgson
stated on May 27, 2014 a radio commercial
Peter Kilmartin voted for the 38 Studios loan guarantee and his State House job was to "twist [legislator’s] arms to vote for deals like this."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 30, 2014
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on May 12, 2014 a fundraising letter
I turned "a $110 million deficit into a $1.6 million surplus for our city."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 25, 2014
Robert Malin
Robert Malin
stated on April 20, 2014 a TV interview
"Fifty percent of Americans will go hungry at some time in their lives."
Mostly False
By Karen Lee Ziner • May 18, 2014
Nicholas Mattiello
Nicholas Mattiello
stated on April 6, 2014 a television interview
The Pell bridge "is a tourism bridge essentially and not a commuter bridge."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2014
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on April 28, 2014 a news release
"Residential property taxes [in Providence] are up nearly 27 percent under Mayor Taveras."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 4, 2014
Robert Walsh
Robert Walsh
stated on April 20, 2014 an interview on WPRI's "Newsmakers" program
Says gubernatorial candidate Clay Pell "hasn't spent a dime on advertising."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 2, 2014
Dawson Hodgson
Dawson Hodgson
stated on March 27, 2014 a TV interview
The Rhode Island Parole Board "never received an objection from the attorney general" to the parole of  convicted murder Alfred Brissette.
True
By John Hill • April 30, 2014
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on April 3, 2014 a website statement
"My Treasury team eliminated a 900-case backlog in the Crime Victim Compensation Program."
True
By John Hill • April 27, 2014
Seth Magaziner
Seth Magaziner
stated on April 13, 2014 an appearance on “10 News Conference”
"In Rhode Island today, 25 percent of our households either don't have a bank account at all, or they have a bank account and they're still relying on high-cost financial services like payday loans, pawn shop check cashing and so on."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 21, 2014
Michael Solomon
Michael Solomon
stated on April 3, 2014 a news release
"Pregnant women who stand for five to six hours at a time increase their risk of pre-term pregnancy by 80 percent."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 20, 2014
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on April 14, 2014 a campaign website
In Rhode Island, "Nearly 9 percent of covered employees go out on short term disability every year, with an average outage from work of almost 12 weeks each."
Half-True
By John Hill • April 15, 2014
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on April 2, 2014 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"A grant for $5,000 [from the Governor’s Workforce Board] went to teach an employee at a company that makes ornamental business card holders how to use Facebook and Twitter."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 13, 2014
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on March 18, 2014 a speech during a rally at the Rhode Island state house
"By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014
Heidi Heilman
Heidi Heilman
stated on March 13, 2014 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"Today’s marijuana is 300 percent to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2014
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on December 26, 2013 a Facebook post
"Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 28, 2014
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on March 7, 2014 a radio interview
After hiring a campaign manager in 2006, "I got this $100 and something fee ... for hazardous materials."  
Mostly False
By John Hill • March 23, 2014
NAACP
NAACP
stated on March 3, 2014 a news release
In the U.S., "African-Americans continue to be arrested at nearly three and one half times the rate of whites" on marijuana charges.
True
By John Hill • March 16, 2014
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